From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:57974 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751127AbdGYOIB (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jul 2017 10:08:01 -0400 Subject: Patch "ovl: fix random return value on mount" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree To: amir73il@gmail.com, dan.carpenter@oracle.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, mszeredi@redhat.com Cc: , From: Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 07:07:54 -0700 Message-ID: <15009916744773@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ovl: fix random return value on mount to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ovl-fix-random-return-value-on-mount.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 8fc646b44385ff0a9853f6590497e43049eeb311 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amir Goldstein Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:58:35 +0300 Subject: ovl: fix random return value on mount From: Amir Goldstein commit 8fc646b44385ff0a9853f6590497e43049eeb311 upstream. On failure to prepare_creds(), mount fails with a random return value, as err was last set to an integer cast of a valid lower mnt pointer or set to 0 if inodes index feature is enabled. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Fixes: 3fe6e52f0626 ("ovl: override creds with the ones from ...") Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -1310,6 +1310,7 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_b else sb->s_d_op = &ovl_dentry_operations; + err = -ENOMEM; ufs->creator_cred = cred = prepare_creds(); if (!cred) goto out_put_lower_mnt; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from amir73il@gmail.com are queue-4.9/ovl-drop-cap_sys_resource-from-saved-mounter-s-credentials.patch queue-4.9/ovl-fix-random-return-value-on-mount.patch